Accordion Koto
- 艺人
- Pauline Oliveros
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Deep Listening
- 发行时间
- 1970年01月01日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Michael G. Nastos
The marriage of the venerable accordion and elegant Japanese koto may strike some as strange bedfellows, but not to masterful improvisers as Pauline Oliveros and Miya Masaoka. The way these instruments blend together and drift apart from each other in a natural and spiritual way seems perfectly conceived, because both of them play their instruments in such an unconventional way. Oliveros has always been interested in electronic accoutrements, and thus extracts an otherworldly sound that is incomparable. Masaoka's koto is not approached in a traditional way, and she utilizes extended techniques to make it sound either guitar like, percussive or anything but imperial. This recording depicts a sound text of a full day's life cycle according to the two performers, and indicates how different their lives are from the rat race society of everyday normalcy. It surrounds a peace, tranquility and harmonious balance of rural and meditative structures that enhances and brings order to what might otherwise seem chaotic. In short, it breathes organically, never forced or prodded, and always bring common sense and fresh ideas to the table. As you'd expect "Daybreak" is a serene, slow to develop and awaken composition with Masaoka playing her instrument in a most atypical manner. As Masaoka is scratching and bowing the koto strings aside the pensive accordion of Oliveros, the duo adopts the sound of a crow effectively, along with otherworldly waking birds. "Forenoon" is 24 1/2 minutes, featuring very long and involved chattery conversations between the two. The very short "Afternoon" must be a late lunchtime snack, an accordion drone as the soup for a koto sandwich. "Twilight" at nearly 20 minutes converges the accordion and electronic enhancements woven into spiritual silver. It's meditational as is much of the music Oliveros prefers in her deep listening concept, while Masaoka derives a danceable line with an ostinato bass riff, and some hyperactivity occurs in the sounds of the woodland. An overdue project according to the booklet, this pairing makes perfect sense, not at all as a duality, but as a unified whole of vintage elements turned into an innovative organ of beauty.
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